Shloka 57

चित्रसेन-समागमः / The Engagement with Citrasena and the Gandharvas

Devanagari script

अनिशायां निशायां च सहा या क्षुत्पिपासयो: । आराधयन्त्या: कौरव्यांस्तुल्या रात्रिरहश्न मे,'रात हो या दिन, मैं सदा भूख-प्यासके कष्ट सहन करके निरन्तर कुरुकुलरत्न पाण्डवोंकी आराधनामें लगी रहती थी। इससे मेरे लिये दिन और रात समान हो गये थे

Transliteration

aniśāyāṃ niśāyāṃ ca sahā yā kṣutpipāsayoḥ | ārādhayantyāḥ kauravyāṃs tulyā rātrir ahaś ca me ||

Translation

ಅಕಾಲದ ವೇಳೆಯಾದರೂ, ನಡು ರಾತ್ರಿಯಾದರೂ, ಹಸಿವು-ಬಾಯಾರಿಕೆಯ ಕಷ್ಟವನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸಿ ನಾನು ಸದಾ ಕುರುವಂಶಜ ಪಾಂಡವರ ಸೇವೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂತರ ತೊಡಗಿದ್ದೆ. ಆ ಅಚಲ ಸೇವೆಯಿಂದ ನನಗೆ ಹಗಲು-ರಾತ್ರಿ ಎರಡೂ ಸಮಾನವಾಗಿಬಿಟ್ಟವು.

Word by Word

अनिशायाम्in the day-time (lit. in non-night)

निशायाम्in the night

चand

सहाenduring, bearing

याwho

क्षुत्of hunger

पिपासयोःof thirst (together: of hunger and thirst)

आराधयन्त्याःof (me) worshipping/serving

कौरव्यान्the Kauravyas (Kuru princes)

तुल्याequal, alike

रात्रिःnight

अहश्चand day

मेfor me / to me

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Kauravas (Kuru lineage)

Pāṇḍavas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Steadfast service performed with endurance—despite hunger, thirst, and loss of comfort—becomes a form of dharma: when duty and devotion are unwavering, personal hardship loses its power to disturb the mind, making day and night ‘the same’.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker (reported by Vaiśaṃpāyana) describes a period of continuous attendance upon the Kuru-born Pāṇḍavas, emphasizing that the strain of hunger and thirst and the disruption of normal rest made time itself feel undifferentiated—night and day alike—because of constant service.